As a professional webmaster who has been through many dedicated server hosting services all over the world, I STRONGLY recommend using an EUROPEAN company to host your server, Scott. Bandwidth over here is cheaper and better (except for routing to the far east, which is better across the pacific).

I’m sure Atrum’s intentions are good, but he may be underestimating the amount of bandwidth required to serve this comic. According to my (rough) calculations, every SINGLE new user, which reads the entire comic up to this point, pumps 175mb down the tubes! If Scott gets a mere 100 new readers per month, that’s 17gb of traffic. If he has 10000 regulars, and releases 20 pages per month (he releases more, except in february or during a hiatus), then for those regulars to read those pages he uses another 46gb, assuming a page size of 230kb in average (of course the whole thing is incredibly inaccurate, since avg page size depends on the amount of compression, where the characters are, whether there are any double pages, etc). Remember that the number of pages increases every weekday, the number of regulars increases with most new users, there are also casual visitors and there are also the design images, fanart, texts, etc. being served and you may have to use at least 70gb per month. Also, out of those 10 thousand regulars, if a mere 100 download the new comic after it’s posted (rather than only visiting occasionally), in order to provide a good service, and let’s place a completely arbitrary good service threshold at users being able to download the comic in 3 seconds (provided they have broadband), you’ll need at least 60mbps available to you at some point every weekday. All this is, unfortunately, expensive, or I’d offer to help Scott too ~.~

Can I ask you something on a serious note as a graphic designer and author of two of my own graphic novels (that are currently being redone)?

What happaned to your paneling? I took the time and looked back at the start and read through. When this comic first started, you had creative use of paneling and more panels to the page, along with word baloons that could span a panle or so to give flow to the page and showing different angles and depths of views. The story actually progressed very nicely and at a pace that kept interest in reading such a long story.

But as if late, you’bve been useing the same paneling style of three/four or so wide shot panels a page for nearly every page and it’s becoming more and more dull and the story is starting to creep along very slowly as not much is happening. It seems like your now trying to capture every single character movment as they speak instead of doing things in a.. I’m unsure how to put it, in a comic style mindset?

The curent page could have easily had two or three panels and more added to it if they were not wide panel views. And while Nicodemus speaks the others just stand there starring.. and.. look at each other? Does that really have to be shown?

Just saying theres a lot beter ways this could have been planed out, and although it all looks amazing and I comment you on the fine work on the models, the story in terms of how it’s progressing is just slowing down to much and is getting boring. Not saying everything has to be action packed, but, using this curent page as an example.. having the gang standing the same way for two, showing just slight movement from Nicodemus as he talks, then the last showing the gang look at each other. Do we really have to see them all looking at Nicodemus unmoving for two pannles? A change of angle, different depths, something to keep the story aspect interesting instead of just “Oh look cool 3D models!”. Like the comic use to do in the early chapters, it’s like it lost what it once had.

Listen. Your comic goes way too slow to read every day. The stuff that gets accomplished in one page of your comic would take other webcomics one or two panels. I’m reading your webcomic hoping it gets better, but seriously, please put the “next” “previous” links above the comics so I don’t have to scroll past the story to get to where I was.

I know it’s been almost a year now, but if you’re still looking for a good host, I’m with DreamHost, and they’re fantastic. Feel free to send me an email if you need more information, or want a promo code for a discount (I’m sure there are already several of those flying around, however).

If you already found something you’re happy with, however, I congratulate you, and hope you all the best. The comic is great!